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Wesley
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No email notification when a bug note is updated

Post by Wesley »

Hello,

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With some help from this forum and other references online, I was able to set up the email notification successfully. for example, email notifications go out when a user reports a new bugnote (or ticket), adds a new note on a bugnote, changes relations, etc. Yet, I did observe an issue:

When a user updates an existing note in a bugnote (or ticket), no email notification is sent out to any other users who, for example, monitor the bugnote, have ever added a note to the bugnote before, etc.

I searched the forum and the Internet and found the post below where 'feesh' reported the same issue, but no further discussions lead to a solution (at least not clear from the link below).

https://www.mantisbt.org/forums/viewtop ... 181#p60569

Note: doubled checked the file config_inc.php and config_default_inc.php, everything uses the default out-of-box values. Also, double checked the email notification management web page within MantisBT, all checkboxes are selected.

Anyone here met across this issue? Any help would be highly appreciated.
atrol
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Re: No email notification when a bug note is updated

Post by atrol »

Wesley wrote:found the post below where 'feesh' reported the same issue,
It's not the same issue.
The mentioned topic deals just with new bug notes.

What you want is a feature request, which is covered by https://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=3380
If you read the discussion, you will notice that not all users want it that way.
So if a user would start to implement it, it should be a feature which can be enabled/disabled by a configuration option.
Or even better, there should be a checkbox when adding a note, where the author of the note could decide if notifications should be sent (e.g. major correction) or not (e.g.fix of a typo).
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Wesley
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Joined: 15 Dec 2017, 03:59

Re: No email notification when a bug note is updated

Post by Wesley »

Hi Atrol,

Thanks for the quick reply. It is very helpful to me to look at this issue from a different UX perspective.

After going through the bugnote 3380, personally, I like your idea of having a checkbox to give the editor the option to decide if other users associated with this ticket or not should get notified about the updating on a note. Hope this addition can be available in the future.

Wesley
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